Episodic Spring
By Don Iannone

Lemon daffodils give way to perky scarlet tulips
...while green leafy bunches of joy sprout
everywhere on sleepy naked trees awakening
from their winter hibernation.
The cardinals know
...even without thinking
a new beginning has begun
...creating a sudden chance for magic
to seize hearts empty too long of celebration.
A robin egg blue sky rains buttery sundrops
...like those we can only imagine
during January snowfalls--so heavy
their thud startles the lone dove who lost her mate
to the mulling red-tailed hawk late last fall.
Spring is the artist
...painting from her heart
on the incomplete canvas of life
...reminding us to loosen our grip just enough
...to be moved by the sweet breeze
sweeping new life upon all of us.